Mark Zuckerberg and other Meta Platforms Inc. directors agreed to a $190 million settlement of claims they failed to rectify repeated violations of Facebook users’ privacy and improperly engineered an ...

Most people probably still remember the Cambridge Analytica scandal, where personal data on millions of Facebook users was collected by Cambridge Analytica without consent for political advertising.

A settlement was announced Thursday in court in a class action investors’ lawsuit against Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and current and former company leaders over claims stemming from the privacy scandal ...

Aimee Picchi is the associate managing editor for CBS MoneyWatch, where she covers business and personal finance. She previously worked at Bloomberg News and has written for national news outlets ...

TL;DR: Meta investors sued CEO Mark Zuckerberg and executives over the 2018 Cambridge Analytica scandal, alleging misleading privacy disclosures led to $8 billion in fines and legal fees. The lawsuit ...

Meta's (NASDAQ:META) top boss, Mark Zuckerberg, is expected to appear as a key witness in an $8B trial this week, which accuses him of operating Facebook as an illegal enterprise that allowed users' ...

After the Cambridge Analytica data scandal broke in 2018, things got bad enough for Meta (then Facebook) that Mark Zuckerberg had to face Congress to try to explain what had happened. The focus on how ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Thursday approved Facebook's $725 million class action settlement, rejecting the arguments of two objectors. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth ...

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The stench of Cambridge Analytica is still hovering over Facebook, as parent Meta just agreed to pay 311,000 Australian users AUD $50 million ($31.7 million) over the scandal. The settlement with the ...